great war

1. is an instance of: world war - a war in which the major nations of the world are involved
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   • battle of the marne, belleau wood, chateau-thierry, marne river - a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918
   • battle of caporetto, caporetto - battle of World War I (1917); Italians were defeated by the Austrian and German forces
   • dardanelles, dardanelles campaign - the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks
   • battle of jutland, jutland - an indecisive naval battle in World War I (1916); fought between the British and German fleets off the northwestern coast of Denmark
   • argonne, argonne forest, meuse, meuse river, meuse-argonne, meuse-argonne operation - an American operation in World War I (1918); American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the armistice on November 11
   • battle of soissons-reims, battle of the aisne, battle of the chemin-des-dames, soissons - a battle in World War I (May 1918); the Germans tried to attack before the American numbers were too great to defeat; the tactical success of the Germans proved to be a strategic failure
   • battle of the somme, somme, somme river - battle in World War I (1916)
   • battle of tannenberg, tannenberg - a battle in World War I (1914); decisive German victory over the Russians
   • battle of verdun, verdun - a battle in World War I (1916); in some of the bloodiest fighting in World War I the German offensive was stopped
   • battle of ypres, first battle of ypres, ypres - battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
   • battle of ypres, second battle of ypres, ypres - battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
   • battle of ypres, third battle of ypres, ypres - battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
   same as: first world war, war to end war, world war 1, world war i

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